Moving soon, any precautions I should take?

[Herf N Turf]

I would not use newspaper. Newspaper has a nasty odor to it and the ink will rub off on the inside of the cooler and anything else it touches. I think your t-shirts and blanket idea's the way to go.

Inside the humidors, if you don't have enough bubbly wrap, you can use inflated zipper bags. Just make sure it's tight enough so to prevent movement. If the humidors lock, lock them. If not, pack them tightly enough to where the lid won't be pushed open by the zippy bags.

The cooler idea for the dry house is a good one. It's virtually impossible to keep a wooden humidor from losing moisture in extremely dry climates. Of course, you can always increase the amount of media and service it more often, which is what I did. Eventually you'll probably end up in a wineador, which is what I did.

[CamoSutra]

I would not use newspaper. Newspaper has a nasty odor to it and the ink will rub off on the inside of the cooler and anything else it touches. I think your t-shirts and blanket idea's the way to go.

Good point! And you just saved me the trouble of buying newspapers, since I'm not a subscriber to our daily fishwrap.

The cooler idea for the dry house is a good one. It's virtually impossible to keep a wooden humidor from losing moisture in extremely dry climates.

The climate should be much more favorable when spring eventually comes; right now I'm showing 58% outside, but only 32% indoors. Since I have to move both desktop humidors and the cooler anyway, I'd might as well load the desktops into the cooler for the trip, and see what I need to do after they've had a day or two in the new place.

You're right, a wineador may be in my future; I like the idea of being able to store, age and display entire boxes. Plus possibly an un-converted wine cooler for -- you know -- wine! But I'm sure I'll go the coolerdor route first, since they're easy and inexpensive.

My biggest concern at the moment is getting a CBid/UPS shipment that was originally scheduled for delivery Tuesday. First, weather delayed it getting into town. UPS rescheduled delivery for Wednesday and I had to be out when they showed up, so they rescheduled for Thursday. But Wednesday evening/Thursday morning we got ice and snow, and delivery slipped to today, and now to either tomorrow or Monday. (Don't know which day, yet. UPS doesn't normally deliver to residences on Saturday, but this week has been far from normal. E-mail I got was noncommittal, so is status on their website.) I'm not too concerned about the cigars suffering, since the Devil Site usually packs them well -- and either the warehouse is heated, or they'll get an extra beetle-killing freeze -- but I'm getting tired of rescheduling my days around a no-show Brown Truck, and I want to tuck the cigars into bed for a few days before they begin their trip to the new place.